| | knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL: 把) / (slang) (loanword) dollar / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs / (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces) | HSK 3 |
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| | paper (CL: 張|张, 沓) / classifier for documents, letters etc | HSK 2 |
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| | to roll up / (fig.) to sweep up; to engulf; to drag into (a situation) / (slang) to compete to an unhealthy degree; hypercompetitive / a roll / classifier for small rolled-up things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc) | HSK 4 |
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| | scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll | HSK 4 |
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| | paper / treatise / thesis / CL: 篇 / to discuss a paper or thesis (old) | HSK 4 |
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| | to open up / to spread / sheet of paper / classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes | HSK 3 |
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| | to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on a form, questionnaire or exam paper) | HSK 4 |
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| | first author (of an academic paper) (abbr. for 第一作者) | |
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| | round / lump / ball / to roll into a ball / to gather / regiment / group / society / classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke) | HSK 3 |
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| | test paper; examination paper | HSK 7-9 |
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| | examination paper / test paper / CL: 份, 張|张 | HSK 4 |
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| | paper towel / napkin / facial tissue / CL: 張|张, 包 | |
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| | rock-paper-scissors (hand game) | |
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| | pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras | |
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| | to flatten out (paper, film, metal plates etc) | |
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| | first author (of an academic paper) | |
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| | corresponding author (of an academic paper) | |
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| | the four great Chinese inventions: paper, printing, magnetic compass and gunpowder | |
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| | paper flower | |
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| | lit. one object bests another object / every item has a weakness (idiom) / there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock | |
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| | paper clip | |
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| | paper-cut silhouette / outline / sketch | |
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| | written examination / paper test (for an applicant) | HSK 6 |
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| | to burn joss paper / (fig.) to flush money down the toilet | |
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| | scale (instrument for weighing) / to weigh / (loanword) pound (unit of weight, about 454 grams) / (printing) point (unit used to measure the size of type) / (Tw) (printing) pound; ream weight (used to describe paper thickness) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | toilet paper / bathroom tissue | |
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| | wrapping paper | |
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| | to review (a paper or manuscript) | |
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| | blueprint / drawing / design plans / graph paper | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to appear vividly on paper (idiom); to show forth vividly (in writing, painting etc) / to stand out markedly | |
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| | katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna) | |
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| | folder / file (paper) | |
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| | paper money / a bill (e.g. 100 yuan) / CL: 張|张, 紮|扎 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a worthless piece of paper (idiom) | |
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| | reviewer (of a paper) | |
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| | blank exam paper | |
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| | lit. dazzling with paper and gold (idiom); fig. indulging in a life of luxury | |
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| | waste paper | |
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| | piece of paper with short note / short letter | |
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| | finger-guessing game / rock-paper-scissors game / morra | |
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| | (onom.) giggling / breathing / tearing of paper, ripping of fabric etc | |
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| | rock-paper-scissors (game) | |
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| | to fold paper (to make origami articles); origami | |
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| | print media / (old) paper taper used to light a cigarette etc | |
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| | lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / (fig.) revolving door; musical chairs (metaphor for people being shuffled around into different jobs) | |
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| | photocopier paper | |
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| | recycled paper | |
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| | paper tiger | |
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| | to write without lifting one's pen from the paper / (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces) | |
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| | thin foil to make paper money for the dead | |
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| | short note / slip of paper / stripe / (slang) cop / (old) prostitute | |
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| | papers / stack of paper | |
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| | cardboard; stiff paper | |
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| | to paste materials (such as paper, fabric or silk) onto walls or artworks for decoration or preservation | |
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| | classifier for a ream of paper | |
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| | paper crane | |
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| | to draw together / to place side by side (e.g. one's fingers, two halves of a torn sheet of paper etc) | |
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| | false paper money burned as an offering to the dead | |
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| | to put pen to paper | |
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| | to seal up (a door with a paper seal, or a document) / to confer an additional title on a nobleman | |
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| | to write without lifting one's pen from the paper / (in the Romanization of Chinese) to write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces) | |
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| | paper | |
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| | notebook / paper notepad / laptop computer | |
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| | recycled paper | |
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| | paper docket confirming a transaction | |
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| | joss paper | |
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| | lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / chaser lights / self-scrolling horizontal text display, such as a news ticker | |
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| | trimmer / paper cutter | |
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| | toilet paper | |
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| | lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom) / fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes | |
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| | exam paper; test paper (CL: 張|张) | |
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| | letter / letter paper | |
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| | paper products / stationery | |
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| | scrap paper | |
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| | a piece, scrap or fragment of paper | |
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| | lit. dazzling with paper and gold (idiom); fig. indulging in a life of luxury | |
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| | white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book | |
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| | paper cutting | |
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| | correction fluid (loanword from "Liquid Paper") (Tw) | |
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| | rice-paper plant (Tetrapanax papyriferus) | |
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| | rice paper / membrane of glutinous rice, used to wrap sweets etc | |
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| | paper cup | |
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| | paper ingots (burned as offerings to the dead) | |
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| | piece of paper with short note / short letter | |
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| | to try to smooth things over / to paper over the issues / to gloss things over | |
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| | paper mulberry tree | |
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| | to construct / to form / to make up / to compose / literary composition / paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) | |
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| | (old) to seal an examinee's name on the examination paper to prevent fraud | |
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| | bank notes / paper currency / CL: 張|张 | |
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| | ash from burnt paper | |
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| | paper cone used as hailer | |
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| | green paper (government report proposing policies and inviting discussion) | |
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| | paper made from silkworm cocoons | |
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| | toilet paper | |
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| | to trace over red characters (as a method of learning to write) / paper printed with red characters to trace over | |
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| | form of divination similar to the Ouija board, in which participants use their forefingers to push a small saucer over a sheet of paper inscribed with numerous Chinese characters | |
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| | draft paper | |
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| | paper wedding (first wedding anniversary) | |
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| | paper shredder | |
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| | to paper a wall | |
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